Minneapolis is “dealing with a city council that has zero clues as to what they are doing,” pastor Tim Christopher of the Berean Missionary Baptist Church told Fox & Friends Weekend on Sunday.
“At the end of the day, to be completely honest with you, they are incompetent in their job,” the Minneapolis pastor said.
Christopher reacted to the comments that the city plans to spend $ 4.8 million to rent a building temporarily to replace the police headquarters that was set on fire by assailants in the nose of the police-involved death of George Floyd.
A city council committee on Thursday approved $ 3.6 million to rent the building for three years and $ 1.2 million to renovate it. The new location is roughly half a mile from MPD’s Third Precinct, which was set on fire by assailants on May 28, after officers were forced to leave it.
Christopher said on Sunday, “We have a city council that is doing everything they can to get rid of the police, so if they are worried about where they’ll put it, will we even have a police department?”
He added, “Everyone is worried about whether there will be a place for them, but they are trying to dismantle and evict a police department if we have a record number of murders in the city.”
Last week, a few shootings that resulted in two deaths in Minneapolis were responsible for the city’s 48th and 49th killers, and the number of murders reported that has been reported in the entire past.
When the area burned down in May, Minneapolis had been in the middle of three days of demonstrations protesting police brutality and systemic racism following the death of 46-year-old Floyd.
Floyd, a Black man, died after a White police officer held his knee for nearly nine minutes, despite Floyd’s scream that he could not breathe. He was booked in hand at the time.
Officials and staff have worked remotely and in the Minneapolis Convention Center since the original Third Precinct was torched.
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City Councilman Cam Gordon said hiring temporary space leaders will give time to figure out what to do with the old headquarters, Minnesota Public Radio News reported.
Christopher stressed that city council members “have no zero indication in what they are doing, and they are hurting the people of this city.”
“That’s what the problem is,” he said. ‘The problem is not where they are [the police precinct] move. ”
“We are in a city where the officials tell us when a criminal comes to you, hand over your hard earned money, hand over your hard earned property, and you want to defend the police department?” Christopher went on to ask.
He added, “There are a record number of murders going on here, and you want to defend or hurt the police department?”
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There have been growing calls in cities across the country, including Minneapolis, to defuse or remove police departments after Floyd’s death.
Fox News’ Stephanie Pagones contributed to this report.
